Candice Millard: James A. Garfield

Candice Millard, author of Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine & the Murder of a President, explores the life and protracted death of James A. Garfield, who didn’t want to be president and was fatally shot just months into his first term.

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Millard is the best-selling author of The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey. A former writer and editor for National Geographic, she lives in Leawood, Kansas.

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The Hail to the Chiefs series continues on Wednesday, May 23, with economist and journalist Zachary Karabell discussing the career of Garfield's vice-president, the undeservedly forgotten Chester Alan Arthur.

Co-presented with the Truman Library Institute and co-sponsored by KCUR’s Up to Date.